Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5546 Films to Buy & Rent
April's Shower (2003)
- Dir. Trish Doolan
Feat. Maria Cina, Trish Doolan, Randall Batinkoff
- A closeted lesbian attempts to reconcile her relationship with her to–be–married best friend during a bridal shower in this madcap comedy…
Arrested Development (TV Series) (2003-2005)
- Feat. Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia de Rossi…
- Celebrated TV sitcom follows the travails of a once–affluent family contending with sudden poverty after the bread–winner (Tambor) is…
Bad Santa (2003)
- Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham…
- Gleefully soiling St. Nick's reputation, Billy Bob Thornton dons the red fat–suit as a department store Santa with a penchant for cigarettes,…
Battle of Shaker Heights, The (2003)
- Dir. Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart…
- This product of the "Project Greenlight" film–making reality–TV is a a light but engaging story of a young war–reenactment…
Beauty (2003)
- Feat. Martin Clunes, Sienna Guillory, Peter Vaughan…
- Brit comedy in which a cloistered aristocrat, represented by Martin Clunes (DOC MARTIN), scarred by years of inbreeding has chosen to "trap" himself…
Big Bounce, The (2003)
- Dir. George Armitage
Feat. Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen…
- Adapted from a cheerily hardboiled novel by Elmore Leonard, this sees petty–crim Wilson washing up in Hawaii, when a tempting swindle lands in…
Big Empty, The (2003)
- Dir. Steve Anderson
Feat. Jon Favreau, Kelsey Grammer, Joey Lauren Adams…
- Jon Favreau is an unemployed LA actor who lands a real–life role in a mysterious rendezvous in an eccentric desert town.
A deliberately…
Big Fish (2003)
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup…
- A fantasy of substance from dir. Tim Burton, set around a dying father (Finney) and his son (Crudup), who relives the father's tall stories, piecing…
Blackball (2003)
- Dir. Mel Smith
Feat. Paul Kaye, Vince Vaughn, James Cromwell…
- Television comedian Paul Kaye ('Dennis Pennis') takes up the spherical orb in this mild sports comedy as the youthful English lawn bowler, striving…
Bon Voyage (2003)
- Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Feat. Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen…
- A plushly–mounted, grander–than–life romantic farce from director of "Cyrano De Bergerac".
It's June 1940, when a group of…